Iron Man 2 hits UK cinemas on April 30th, and fans looking for a sneak peek should check out the StarkExpo2010.com viral site for some nifty teasers and high-tech concepts. Playboy inventor Tony Stark's gadgets are a tech-head's dream….

Paramount has taken advantage of all the internet has to offer, with the release of their second trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull employing the use of a widget for fans to embed into their blogs and social networking profiles.

Whilst it reeks of astro-turfing, Paramount clearly knows what they’re doing, offering a contest where fans can win trips to the world premiere of the film if they manage to embed the ‘Skull’ widget onto as many sites as they can. They’ve also…

Further hammering the nail into HD DVD’s coffin, it appears Paramount is the latest film studio to drop the high-def format, after reports today from the Financial Times suggested they’re following Warner Brothers’ decision on Friday to back Blu-ray.

Paramount, DreamWorks Animation and Universal are the only real feathers to the format’s cap, and to lose another…

alt="transformers-photo.jpg" src="http://www.techdigest.tv/transformers-photo.jpg" width="150" height="223" />Transformers geeks have probably already learnt of the accolade the film has acquired, being the fastest selling high-def release in history. In fact, they’ve probably already cut the article out of the paper, framed it, and stuck it on the wall.

It was released on the HD DVD format on October the 16th, with 100,000 copies sold on the first day it was made available. However, the Director Michael Bay has spoken out against the format, saying he would’ve preferred it to have been on Blu-ray. Ouch. “As a director, my critical eye is that Blu-ray is where my money is. Consumers are smart, and they are going to wait it out.”

He went even further, lashing out on his personal site, saying “I want people to see my movies in the best formats possible. For…

The rhetoric surrounding Blu-ray and HD DVD has continued, with various media executives weighing in with their opinions of each other, and even the consumer. Firstly, Rupert Murdoch commented on Paramount's decision to exclusively support HD DVD, first declaring that…

According to a few eagle-eyed people who've been perusing the iTunes Store's customer complaints web site, Apple could be planning a future movie rentals service via iTunes. As well as options for reporting problems with Movies and Ringtones purchases, there…

Regardless of the true motivation behind Paramount and Dreamworks' decision to go exclusively HD DVD, it's no surprise at all that Toshiba are pretty pleased about the deal. “We welcome the announcement from Paramount and DreamWorks Animation SKG,” said Yoshihide…